Senior Distributed Systems Backend Developer

1 day ago

Brampton, Peel Region, Canada Charger Logistics Inc. Full-time €90,000 - €150,000 Contract
Shape distributed systems with service communication, observability, and performance optimization at Charger Logistics Inc. across North America. As a senior backend developer, you will help evolve a transport provider’s distributed platform containing over 100 microservices. Your focus includes service-to-service communication, tracing, metrics, logging, and scalable database access. Collaboration with DevOps, QA, and frontend teams supports high availability and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities
- Optimize service communication to reduce latency and improve throughput
- Implement OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana observability practices
- Develop scalable SQL queries for PostgreSQL systems
- Improve testability and traceability with QA collaboration
- Participate in architecture reviews and microservices best practices

Requirements:
- Seven or more years of backend development experience
- Microservices experience spanning at least two years
- Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation
- Knowledge of resilience patterns including retries and circuit breakers
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in large-scale systems Bring distributed systems, observability, communication, and performance skills to Charger Logistics Inc.’s backend engineering work.